A host of heroes

Watch this video by TED ed to find some answers

Tasks

1 Recreate the story behind the word cloud below. (pairwork) 

 2. Write a newspaper report of the same story. Include some witnesses, write it in columns , choose the name for your local newspaper. 

 3.  Final Task:
    
 Choice 1.

 You are a newspaper reporter,you will have to cover the news of a tidal wave causing a catastrophe in New York and how Spiderman (the superhero) saved the city and the population.

 Choice 2. 

 You are a reporter. You will have to cover some piece of news with the superhero or real life hero saving somebody from an extremely dangerous situation. You can choose the situation

Working with headlines

Here are some newspaper headlines. Look at the language used, verb forms, lack of determiners and how to grab the reader's attention

a newspaper snippet

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Writing a newspaper article

 Work with this article from BBC.

• Compare the headline to the first paragraph.Find similarities and differences
• Find the article's different parts.Give a title to each one.
• Analyse quotations: who? why? when?... are they quoted 
• The character's local or international dimension: how is it rendered?
• Language: What is the prevailing Tense used and why? what different Aspects can you see? (continuous or perfect)

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Get some ideas to write your article for the newspaper

step by step advice to be followed and a template for you to use

Recreate the story behind this word cloud

French hero